To the Apennines 159
Earth 160
The Knight's Epitaph 163
The Hunter of the Prairies 165
Seventy-six 166
The Living Lost 168
Catterskill Falls 169
The Strange Lady 172
"Earth's Children Cleave to Earth" 176
The Hunter's Vision 176
The Green Mountain Boys 178
A Presentiment 179
The Child's Funeral 180
The Battle-field 181
The Future Life 183
The Death of Schiller 184
The Fountain 185
The Winds 188
The Old Man's Counsel 191
In Memory of William Leggett 193
An Evening Revery 194
The Painted Cup 196
A Dream 197
The Antiquity of Freedom 198
The Maiden's Sorrow 200
The Return of Youth 201
A Hymn of the Sea 203
Noon. (From an unfinished Poem) 205
The Crowded Street 206
The White-footed Deer 208
The Waning Moon 210
The Stream of Life 212
The Unknown Way 212
"Oh Mother of a Mighty Race" 214
The Land of Dreams 215
The Burial of Love 217
"The May Sun sheds an Amber Light" 218
The Voice of Autumn 219
The Conqueror's Grave 220
The Planting of the Apple-Tree 222
The Snow-Shower 225
A Rain-Dream 226
Robert of Lincoln 229
The Twenty-seventh of March 231
An Invitation to the Country 232
Song for New-Year's Eve 234
The Wind and Stream 235
The Lost Bird. (From the Spanish of Carolina Coronado de Perry) 236
The Night-Journey of a River 237
The Life that Is 240
Song.--"These Prairies Glow with Flowers" 241
A Sick-Bed 242
The Song of the Sower 244
The New and the Old 249
The Cloud on the Way 250
The Tides 252
Italy 253
A Day-Dream 255
The Ruins of Italica. (From the Spanish of Rioja) 257
Waiting by the Gate 260
Not Yet 262
Our Country's Call 263
The Constellations 265
The Third of November, 1861 266
The Mother's Hymn 267
Sella 268
The Fifth Book of Homer's Odyssey.--Translated 282
The Little People of the Snow 297
The Poet 306
The Path 308
The Return of the Birds 310
"He hath put all Things under His Feet" 312
My Autumn Walk 313
Dante 315
The Death of Lincoln 316
The Death of Slavery 317
Hymn.--"Receive thy Sight" 319
A Brighter Day 320
Among the Trees 321
May Evening 325
October, 1866 327
The Order of Nature. (From Boethius de Consolatione) 329
Tree-Burial 330
A Legend of the Delawares 332
A Lifetime 336
The Two Travellers 341
Christmas in 1875. (Supposed to be written by a Spaniard) 343
The Flood of Years 344
Our Fellow-Worshippers 348